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Getting started with Play 2.x

Last modified: 10 August 2022

Before you start generating your Play project, make sure that the Scala plugin is downloaded and enabled in IntelliJ IDEA.

IntelliJ IDEA supports Play versions 2.4 and later.

Let's look at the following common scenarios for generating a Play 2 project in IntelliJ IDEA:

  • If you have an already existing Play 2 project, you can import it or check out from version control. In this case you can follow the regular procedure for importing or cloning a project.

  • If you are not familiar with Play 2 framework and want to learn how to use it, create a Play project via IntelliJ IDEA that will generate an executable application.

  • If you want to manually add a support for Play 2 framework, create an sbt project.